It could be worse - it could be what happened in the Star Trek universe. Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING dates back to a single TOS episode that wasn't the greatest one to start with. If they could just get away from "Space Seed" and make a couple of movies based on different/better episodes! "City on the Edge of Forever" would be one - so much wasted potential. "Doomsday Machine" would be another. Hell, even "Mudd's Women" would be better than "Space Seed"! I never did like that episode to begin with!